Conceived by The Judicial Integrity Project, the bill would require more information to flow into the commissions and more information to flow out of the commissions. It would require the commissions to issue public reports about judges every 2 years. And the bill would reconfigure the state performance commission (which writes the rules for all commissions to follow and makes recommendations regarding appellate and Supreme Court judges) to consist of one representative from each of the 22 district commissions. The bill would also make Colorado’s Open Records Act apply to the commissions.

We call it “The Reboot.” It’s HB16-1235. It’s been assigned to the State, Veterans and Military Affairs committee. This committee is often called the “kill committee.” Hopefully, the committee won’t want to kill this piece of sunshine!

Thank you to Rep. Kevin Van Winkle (R) for sponsoring the legislation! And thank you to Sen. John Kefalas (D) and Sen. Kevin Lundberg (R) for being Senate sponsors!